France

IN LIVING MEMORY / ANIMA

THE AUDIENCES

These public are partly defined by the accompanying structures and are partners in the creation project. On ANIMA, the publics are defined by three criterias: age (children / adults / seniors), their legal status (persons under Justice control / persons of civil society) and their social situation (adults insertion / Teachers). Thus, these publics classes are not “airtight”. Certain public entering in different categories (adult insertion also included in the category of senior citizens for example, or persons placed under judicial situation of re- insertion)

– Persons placed under justice control – Men detained in penitentiary center of Marseille or getting a planning penalty and ending their sentences outside – About ANIMA: 17 detainees, aged between 19 and 64 and 2 men getting a planning penalty outside.

This audience consists of trainees and former trainees of training workshops and visual and sound creation that Lieux Fictifs leads in the men’s prison of “Baumettes”. This training is intended to eight inmates and takes place over two sessions, from September to December and from February to June, Monday to Friday: 6 hours per day. These people are held as candidates for training and, after a pre-selection made by the prison administration, are recruited by the team of Lieux Fictifs involving both the person in charge of the formation and production of programs to internal video channel in the Baumettes and / the director responsible for creation.

One of the criteria for the formation of groups at each recruitment is to integrate a variety of profiles (in terms of culture, age, life course, energy …) to create through this a community group like the one that our society is made of differences, and foster a dynamic of co-construction from these differences.

Outside, the public placed under justice control consists of former trainees of the workshops who wish to pursue their project of re-insertion in the audiovisual and are recruited into the Image and Insertion Pole that Lieux Fictifs created to reach this expectation. 2 jobs have been created since 2013, participating in the ANIMA project.

– Young minors in ANIMA : 14 young people, aged between 14 and 16 years enjoying a day at home to Marseille Territorial Service Educational Insertion, dependent service of the Regional Directorate of Judicial Protection of Youth and Education. This service is responsible for the integration of young people, focusing on a logic of social and professional integration, which due to their multiple difficulties cannot access to ordinary devices. As such, the day units offer activities in different areas: school education, vocational training, cultural, artistic, sports, health … The young people who participated in the ANIMA project are – for some – a candidate in this creative experience and were – for others – oriented to this project by the educational team. The educational team has previously been sensitized and trained to the project during two days spent with artists with one day workshop practice (dance and drawing).

– Specialized Teachers with young children with integration problemsOn ANIMA: 3 teachers and one intern at the Territorial Service of Education and Insertion of Marseille in the project and supervising young miners who come from this service.

– Young adult recently arrivedOn ANIMA: 1 young woman of 26, who took French classes in the Innovation Centre for Employment and Social Reclassification, an association which develop training programs including this type of public.

– Adults in insertion (adults beneficiaries of social minima and seeking work)
On ANIMA: 1 adult arrived two years ago in France and accompanied him in his job search by the Association of Integration through work.

– Seniors: People over sixty years. On ANIMA: 3 seniors whose age is between 60 and 80 years, recruited through two associations: Mutual Solidarity 13, an association of 54,000 members who manage senior areas of the department, in which different activities are offered (cultural, sports …) and Hey Now!, association created by seniors who have worked with the choreographer Thierry Thieu Niang and who wish to continue this work of dance.

– Students: film students and / or communication. On ANIMA: 16 Student Documentary Film Master at the University of Aix Marseille. 3 Norwegian students of the School of Communication Westerdals.

THE TERRITORIES

BAUMETTES PRISON IN MARSEILLESThe studio of Workshops of training in visual and audio creation created by Lieux Fictifs and authorized by the prison administration is in the heart of the establishment. It hosts daily trainees, directors, technicians and artists who come to work there.
This space consists of a large room, a space for watching movies, a virtual space for edition and a film set. All these local area is 300m2.

MARSEILLES / CITYThe ANIMA project developed in various places / spaces of the City of Marseille. These areas were chosen for the scenery they offered to action, and first of its urban landscapes and / or to the adequacy of space and workshops that took place there:

The “Friche Belle de Mai” (3rd district): exterior corridors and representative of a wasteland for choreography, theaters and rehearsal spaces for work on the drawing (workshop room for Lieux Fictifs, “Petit Théâtre”) on the text (Plateau), the sound (studio “Euphonia”), and dance (rehearsal room of the Company “L’entreprise”)

Klap, dance centre (3rd district): for the first working sessions on the movement

“Cité des Arts de la Rue” (15th district): the outer and the dance rehearsal room to work on choreography

“Atelier des beaux Arts” in Saint André (16th district) for the work on painting

SAINT MARTIN DE CRAU / AREA OF “ETANG DES AULNES” / CAMARGUE NATURAL PARKThe ANIMA project has received residencies of the Departmental Council of the “Bouches du Rhône” department in field of the departmental “Etang des Aulnes” (pond), a natural site on the edge of the Camargue Regional Park, offering a workplace equipped for performing arts (theater / dance) and opening on a typical local landscape.